Author: Winterblink

EVE Voice Splash

Many people noticed a new splash screen that came up when launching EVE, something which CCP tends to do when they have something to announce such as a new product or service. Today’s was something a little special, to announce the availability of EVE Voice, the in-game VOIP service provided by the fine folks at Vivox. 🙂

It’s entirely surreal to log in and see your own stuff at the front end of a MMO’s login screen. Thanks a bunch for letting me help out, CCP!

Systemfehler

Funnily enough, 14 days before my Xbox 360’s product replacement plan through Best Buy is due to expire, my 360 starts doing some weird graphical stuff while playing GRAW2. I reboot to see if it fixes the problem and whammo, get a single red light of doomy doom. Behold, the gallery of shame.

According to some useful debug information, the error could be because of a screwed A/V cable or a failed A/V encoder. I have two A/V sets, one for component and one for VGA. I’ve tried both of them, which worked before the problem, now both show this error. I’m inclined to think it’s a deeper hardware failure.

I’ve been using my 360 through the VGA connection so I can utilize the 1080p resolution on my set, so who knows, maybe running the 360 in a mode it wasn’t originally designed for has cooked the video chipset. At any rate, tomorrow I’ll probably be going to exchange it. Whee!